A Kurdish merchant was killed by the direct shooting of border forces in the border areas of Baneh.
According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, a Kurdish merchant was killed as a result of shooting by border forces with Kalashnikov at close range in the “Gileh Soureh” border area of Baneh county.
The identity of this merchant, “Mohammad Ghaderi”, son of Haji Saleh, married and father of three children, from the village of “Shooy” in the suburbs of Baneh, has been reported.
It is said that as a result of the border forces’ shooting, several bullets hit the body of this merchant.
According to the statistics recorded in Kolbarnews in the year 1402, a total of 444 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-provincial routes between West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches, frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other causes. Out of this total number, 44 Kolbars were killed, equivalent to 10%, and 400 Kolbars were injured, equivalent to 90%. Out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the year 1402, a total of 373 cases, equivalent to 84%, were due to direct shooting by military forces.
Additionally, out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the border strip of Kurdistan in the year 1402, 37 of them are children under 18 years old.
In the year 1402, we witnessed a 90% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbars in the border strip of Kurdistan.
